Obesity is caused by shitty diet and "normalization of deviance" since a better term escapes me right now. People eat too much low value food. Some of that is

Obesity is caused by shitty diet and "normalization of deviance" since a better term escapes me right now. People eat too much low value food. Some of that is due to poverty, but when over half the population is overweight, it isn't just an issue of lack of good food. It's bad choices. Largely brought on by bad government advice and incentives. Edit: Expanding a bit, I recently talked with a couple friends from college. One had lost 100lbs and another had lost quite a bit of weight. The main change they made was to cut out soft drinks. One of them said, "Why didn't anyone tell me that's a bad idea?" Worded another way, I've heard it explained before that we tell people "eat more of this". People take that to mean "Eat what you already eat, plus these things, and you will be healthy." What it actually means is "Don't eat this garbage that is making you sick." But it's never worded that way. Add to that the fact that all government nutrition advice is basically just pandering to the highest bidder with little regard for what actually makes for a healthy diet, and it's no wonder people have so many problems.